A History of the Mahrattas v2.c37.126

v2.c37.126

Amid all these authorized pacificators, General Goddard, who as yet considered himself the accredited agent on the part of the Supreme Government, also opened a negotiation, and assumed, what was privately agreed, though not expressed in the treaty between Colonel Muir and Sindia, that the latter should use his endeavour to obtain a cessation of hostilities between the Peishwa and the English, until the terms of a general peace could be adjusted.